1960 Boston Red Sox season

The 1960 Boston Red Sox season was the 60th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished seventh in the American League (AL) with a record of 65 wins and 89 losses, 32 games behind the AL champion New York Yankees.[1]

1960 Boston Red Sox
Ted Williams' Final Season
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Tom Yawkey
General manager(s)Bucky Harris
Manager(s)Billy Jurges (W-15; L-27), Del Baker (W-2; L-5) and Pinky Higgins (W-48; L-57)
Local televisionWHDH-TV, Ch. 5
Local radioWHDH-AM 850
(Curt Gowdy, Bill Crowley, Art Gleeson)
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Regular season
  • June 7, 1960: Manager Billy Jurges was fired with Boston in eighth and last place. After interim skipper Del Baker handled the Bosox for seven games, Jurges was replaced by Mike "Pinky" Higgins (his predecessor) on June 14.[1]
  • September 28, 1960: Ted Williams retired at the end of the Red Sox' home season. In his final at bat, Williams hit the 521st home run of his career.[1] Williams finished the season with a .316 batting average at the age of 41.[1] He did not play in Boston's three-game season finale at Yankee Stadium the ensuing weekend.
  • September 28, 1960: The Red Sox also fired second-year general manager Bucky Harris after the club's final home game on September 28, and signed Higgins to a three-year contract as field manager and director of player personnel.[2] Business manager Dick O'Connell was promoted to executive vice president, as the Red Sox temporarily abolished the title of general manager.

Season standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 9757 0.630 — 55–22 42–35
Baltimore Orioles 8965 0.578 8 44–33 45–32
Chicago White Sox 8767 0.565 10 51–26 36–41
Cleveland Indians 7678 0.494 21 39–38 37–40
Washington Senators 7381 0.474 24 32–45 41–36
Detroit Tigers 7183 0.461 26 40–37 31–46
Boston Red Sox 6589 0.422 32 36–41 29–48
Kansas City Athletics 5896 0.377 39 34–43 24–53

Record vs. opponents
1960 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC NYY WSH
Baltimore —16–613–914–813–913–99–1311–11
Boston 6–16—5–179–1314–813–97–1511–11
Chicago 9–1317–5—11–1111–1115–710–1214–8
Cleveland 8–1413–911–11—7–1515–76–1616–6
Detroit 9–138–1411–1115–7—10–128–1410–12
Kansas City 9–139–137–157–1512–10—7–15–17–15
New York 13–915–712–1016–614–815–7–1—12–10
Washington 11–1111–118–146–1612–1015–710–12—

Notable transactions

Opening Day lineup
12Pumpsie Green2B
  3Pete Runnels1B
11Frank Malzone3B
10Gene StephensRF
  9Ted WilliamsLF
37Gary GeigerCF
  1Don BuddinSS
30Haywood Sullivan    C
15Tom SturdivantP

Roster
1960 Boston Red Sox
Roster
Pitchers
  • 31 Chet Nichols
  • 26 Earl Wilson
 Catchers

Infielders

  •  5 Ron Jackson
 Outfielders Managers

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CRuss Nixon8027281.298533
1BVic Wertz131443125.28219103
2BPete Runnels143528169.320235
3BFrank Malzone152595161.2711479
SSDon Buddin124428105.245636
LFTed Williams11331098.3162972
CFWillie Tasby105385108.281737
RFLou Clinton9629868.228637

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Rip Repulski7313633.243320

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Tom Borland260436.5332

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Minneapolis Millers American Association Eddie Popowski
A Allentown Red Sox Eastern League Sheriff Robinson
B Raleigh Capitals Carolina League Ken Deal
D Waterloo Hawks Midwest League Matt Sczesny
D Corning Red Sox New York–Penn League Len Okrie
D Alpine Cowboys Sophomore League Dick Kinaman

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Waterloo[7]

Notes
  1. The Boston Red Sox, Milton Cole and Jim Kaplan, p.32, World Publications Group, North Dighton, Massachusetts, ISBN 1-57215-412-8
  2. Smiles, Jack (2011). Bucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball's 'Boy Wonder'. McFarland & Company. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-7864-4160-0.
  3. Sammy White page at Baseball-Reference
  4. Rip Repulski page at Baseball-Reference
  5. Red Sox sells Jackson
  6. "Indians, Red Sox exchange players". Milwaukee Journal. AP. June 13, 1960. p. 16. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  7. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

References
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